Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because I’ve been food service over 25 years and deserve some recognition after all that.
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Receive Text UpdatesIt’s a dish called chicken riggies and it a dish from upstate New York.
Who is your culinary inspiration?I do not really have one of them
What would you do with the $25,000?I would donate half of it to a good cause.
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